Memory Systems
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Memory is the retention and ability to recall information, personal experiences, and procedures (skills and habits). The Atkinson model of memory is made up of three information stores: a sensory memory, short term memory, and a long-term memory.
Sensory memory: automatically registers any stimula ....
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.... due to proactive interference (past information interferes with access to new information), retroactive interference (newly acquired information interferes with access to old information), and lack of an adequate retrieval cue.
A study plan that I would use to improve my ability to remember class and textbook materials would be to become organized, physical, clear, and smart. Being organized would be to learn from general to specific, getting on overview as a framework on which to hang specific ....
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